Magazine Layouts

Magazine Layouts

Magazine Layouts Full disclosure: This project is how I hook students into designing and sometimes writing for a student publication. We start with finding an article that inspires some imagery that a student can find in the school or home environment for a digital...
Photoshop Portrait Paintings

Photoshop Portrait Paintings

Photoshop Portrait Paintings After students have practiced techniques for creating pattern fills, matching colors, and using brushstrokes in Photoshop, we put skills into practice to create a portrait painting. Students use a photograph of someone whom they respect as...
Surrealist Collages

Surrealist Collages

Surrealist / Emotive Collages After students have built familiarity with selection techniques and collage tools in Photoshop, we launch into more expressive designs. Using surrealism as a launching point, we start to target our techniques towards the goal of...
Exploring Negative Space

Exploring Negative Space

Exploring Negative Space Students begin with viewing plenty of examples, then sketching ideas for a design that will clearly show relationships between positive and negative space in a defined format. This exercise serves as an introduction to drawing shapes in...
Action!

Action!

Action! As students learn more tools and techniques in Photoshop, I want them to be inspired to take risks and explore new applications. For this project, each student brings in a photograph of himself in action—and then we learn how to apply Photoshop actions to the...